10 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week

So dumb it’s sorta fun. ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Jack Black and Jason Momoa star as gamers who find a portal into a virtual world made of blocks in this wacky video-game adaptation directed by Jared Hess. From our review: This retro sensibility might, on paper, make for an out-of-touch comedy, but there’s something almost refreshingly … Read more

‘When Fall is Coming’ Review: Cooking Up a Mystery

For “When Fall Is Coming,” the French filmmaker François Ozon has cooked up a little mystery and an enigmatic heroine. A sleek, modestly scaled entertainment about families, secrets and obligations, it features fine performances and some picture-postcard Burgundian locations. It’s there in the heart of France, in a picturesque village in a large, pretty house, … Read more

‘Freaky Tales’ Review: Totally Oakland

Crammed to the margins with peaceable punks, vicious skinheads, ambitious rappers, racist police — oh, and a green supernatural whatsit — Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s “Freaky Tales” is a nostalgic homage to the music, movies and personalities of the 1980s. Set in 1987 in Oakland, where Fleck grew up, this revenge-of-the-underdogs picture unfolds through … Read more

‘Henry Fonda for President’ Review: A Legend and His Contradictions

Henry Fonda was inarguably one of the greatest actors ever produced by the United States. The Austrian filmmaker Alexander Horwath pushes this self-evident truth further in his purposefully expansive documentary “Henry Fonda for President.” The movie convincingly posits that Fonda was, cinematically, the embodiment of America itself. Horwath has gathered a vast amount of archival … Read more